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[klack]

I have followed the thread at »Setting up second DI-624 as an AP

to create the following situation:

XBOX1 (192.168.1.110) and XBOX 360 (192.168.1.111)
-Both Wired to a DI-604 Router (LAN 192.168.1.1, WAN 192.168.0.2)
-Wired to a DWL-G820 Wireless Game Adapter (192.168.0.35)
-Wirelessly connected to a DI-604 Wireless broadband adapter (192.168.0.1)
-Which has a PC wired to it (192.168.0.200)

I know... it sounds complicated

What I have essentially done is plugged a router into the game adapter so that I can run 2 consoles from it.

I *ALMOST* have everything working.

The Xbox1 works perfectly through both routers, I can get internet and connect to my PC share.

The Xbox 360 is different. I can connect to Xbox Live! and play online, but I cannot access my PC for Windows Media Center, or though Windows Media Player 11 sharing.  I've tried setting the DMZ for the router connected to the Xbox 360 to 192.168.1.111 and it still didn't work.

The Xbox 360 cannot find a computer with windows media center on it (was working before this new setup) nor can it find media that is being shared by windows media player 11.

So does anyone have any tricks to get these features to work?

[SigmaXIX]

I've always found it difficult, if not impossible, to get Xbox360 to detect Media Center that's on a different Gateway, even if it's on DMZ.

Try enabling UPnP [universal plug & play] on your routers, for one.  Another, you may consider making one or more of the routers a switch or repeater instead of each being routed individually.

Sounds like some unnecessarily complicated stuff you have going on there.  You need to get down to L-C-D [Lowest Common Denominator].  Obviously, if you plug the Xbox360 directly into a router that the PC happens to be on, WMC works 100%.

[I mean, why the hell do you wire your internet connection like that?  And D-Link ... ugh!  But maybe I can help?]

All you have to do is get the official MS wireless adapter and you should be up-and-running.  [And there are wireless gaming repeaters that are wired, specifically for the purpose of what you are stating -- Buffalo tech, and others -- but why add that many complicated hurdles, needlessly?]

Are you running DD-WRT?  I may be able to walkthru some other BS.  Why not just plug the wireless gaming adapter into the console you are using at the time?

This post has been edited by SigmaXIX: Dec 31 2007, 03:49 AM

[rami]

to make it work how you are suggesting, you would need to run your own dns/wins servers and have the 360 learn where your other devices are that way.

an easier setup would be to have all your devices on the same subnet. to do this keep the first router setup how you have it now. setup all devices to use the first router's subnet. the trick is the second router needs to have one of its lan ports connected to the first router's lan port. if the second router allows you, disable its wan port.also disable its dhcp server.

this will make the second router work more like a switch with wireless access point.

[iamcheese]

im runing through 2 linksys routers right now, not exactly the same set up as you but i have a cable running from port 1 on my router to the ethernet port on my desktop which has a wireless card in it and that wireless card is connected to a wireless router across the house i have ip for  the router connected to my cable modem set to 192.168.1.1 and the one in my bedroom that is connected to my computer set to 192.168.1.2 and my 360 is also connected to that router and it can connect to xbl just fine and it not only finds my laptop that has xp mediacenter on it but it also finds my desktop that is runing vista home premium

and it also finds the other vista machine that is also running vista that is on the other router

do you have it automaticly finding ip address or did you set them up manually?